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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : variant of Quealy.
  • Americanized or variant spelling of Norwegian Kvaløy, a habitational name from any of some ten farmsteads so named, from kval ‘whale’ + øy ‘island’ (Old Norse Hvaley).

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